The Cabot Family
Cabot - to sail
Maurice - dark-skinned
(In the very final drafts, Maurice's name is being changed to Mathys, which means "gift of God")
Annalise - graced with God's bounty
Ilsa - God is my oath
(In the very final drafts, Ilsa's name is being changed to Camille, which means "virgin" ... Do what you will with this information)
Blair - field or plain
The Beaumont Family
Beaumont - beautiful mountain
Adam - multiple meanings: to be red, earth, to make, man
Jayla - one who is special (I used this one because it sounded like the word "jealous")
Isolde - beautiful, fair
Misc. Characters
Rowena - fair, slender (cough, fairest of them all, cough)
Denver - green valley
Avoln - no meaning (because I just made this one up)
(In the very final draft, Avoln is getting a name change to Ivan, which means apparently also means gift from God, now that I'm looking it up...)
Jean - gift from God (Again. I swear this was a coincidence.)
Most of the time I choose symbolic names for my main characters or even sometimes minor characters, so I purposely took time on Jayla, Isolde, and Rowena, but strangely, I actually didn't do anything with Annalise or Adam or Avoln or basically anyone else. They were all kind of off the top of my head this time... Huh. I don't know. Sometimes a name just comes to me and I go, "yep, I shall call you Squishy and you shall be mine, and you shall be my Squishy".
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Rose, Wilted: Book 1
FantasiA mangled curse. An old feud. A horrible monster. Ever since the Beast overthrew the King three years ago, the country of Fabel has been on the edge of chaos and Annalise's nameless village is one of many places hanging onto order by a fraying threa...
